Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A vaccination campaign is underway in Nigeria to contain an outbreak of meningitis C, a strain of meningitis which first emerged in the country in 2013, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a report - “Ten years in public health 2007-2017” – that chronicles the evolution of global public health over the decade that the outgoing Director-General Dr Margaret Chan has headed of the UN health agency.
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Geneva, Swtzerland (PANA) - Countries are not increasing spending fast enough to meet the water and sanitation targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says a new report published by WHO on behalf of UN-Water – the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater-related issues, including sanitation.
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New York, US (PANA) - UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Dainius Puras says treatment for people suffering from depression must shift from heavy reliance on drugs and medicalised interventions to addressing power imbalances and inequalities that often underlie the condition.
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New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of World Autism Awareness Day, the United Nations on Friday called for recognising the rights of people with the spectrum neurological condition, which is believed to affect 70 million people around the world.
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Atlanta, US (PANA) - The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has awarded The Carter Center a grant of US$800,000 to help support an initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma in Mali and Niger, the Center announced on Monday.
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New York, US (PANA) - More than 116 million children are set to be immunized against polio starting on Saturday in one of the largest of its kind synchronized vaccination campaigns across West and Central Africa, UN agencies announced.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - On World TB Day 2017, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) joins the Stop TB Partnership, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other key partners in redoubling efforts to increase public awareness of tuberculosis among migrants, UN migration agency said on Thursday.
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New York, US (PANA) - Cancer can be a death warrant in some developing countries, spurring the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the international community on Wednesday held a high-level meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, on how to get more funding and support for treatment to parts of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Japan on Monday stepped up its efforts as one of the largest supporters of the move to eradicate polio in Nigeria, saying it is providing a total of US$33 million for emergency polio vaccination efforts in the Lake Chad region.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli on Saturday agreed to Kenya's request for 500 physicians to help the neighbouring East African country deal with the of shortage of medical doctors in its hospitals following a three-month strike by local doctors.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Liberation hero Ahmed Kathrada’s recovery from surgery has been slow, but his life is not in danger and he is not on a life-support system, PANA reported Friday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN has announced the establishment of an Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which will be co-chaired by UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Government of Somalia on Thursday launched an oral cholera vaccination (OCV) campaign with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), targeting over 450,000 people in seven high-risk areas around the country.
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New York, US (PANA) – The United Nations emergency food relief agency, in collaboration with partners and as a part of a global supply chain network, has set about developing the first-ever information platform to better manage supply chains and efficiently match deliveries with demand in responding to large-scale health emergencies such as pandemic outbreaks.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two United Nations human rights experts are calling for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming, and move towards sustainable agricultural practices.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – Representatives of four African countries, Mali, Chad, Cape Verde and Ethiopia, are participating in an international ministerial conference on health and family planning in Africa.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations health agency has stressed the critical need for research and development of new antibiotics to tackle the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).
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New York , US (PANA) - Against the backdrop of health systems struggling to adapt to the growing needs of migrants around the world, health leaders from over forty countries, at a UN consultative meeting called for international collaboration to improve the health and well-being of migrants and their families.
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New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, estimating that it affects more than 300 million people worldwide, with the majority of them women, young people and the elderly.
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New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have successfully controlled one of the world’s largest and most challenging outbreaks of yellow fever.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan private hospitals were on set to begin early Wednesday a shutdown of medical facilities lasting 48 hours in support of striking doctors whose union leaders have been jailed for defying a court order to suspend a nearly three-month strike, a professional doctors body said Tuesday.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan doctors' union officials were jailed on Monday after defying court orders to halt a strike by physicians working in state-run hospitals, now heading to its third straight month.
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Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The United Nations office working to end conflict-related sexual violence has helped to bring world-renowned surgeon Denis Mukwege and a team from his Panzi Hospital to Conakry, Guinea, to provide medical and psychological treatment for 30 of the women and girls raped in politically-motivated violence in 2009, it was announced on Wednesday.
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New York, US (PANA) - Early cancer diagnosis saves lives and cuts treatment costs, particularly in developing countries where the majority of cancer cases are diagnosed too late, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said cervical cancer kills more than 250,000 women every year and that 85 per cent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, stressing the importance of vaccinating girls against the cancer-causing virus and screening programmes to detect and treat precancerous lesions.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Not enough exercise contributes to cancer, diabetes, depression and other non-communicable diseases, according to the United Nations health agency, which is urging people to get up and get active.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union Summit is due to make a huge statement of the its preparedness to handle future health emergencies with the launch of the African Centre for Disease Control (CDC) to deal with outbreaks of epidemics affecting humans and animals, officials said Saturday.
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New York, US (PANA) – A special adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly has stressed the importance of mental health for all actions to be taken to achieve sustainable development goals.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, leaves Abuja Thursday for the United Kingdom “on a short leave”, which is part of his annual vacation, a Presidential statement has said.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A United Nations-supported mass vaccination campaign has started to protect more than 4.7 million children against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Policies to control tobacco use, including tobacco tax and price increases, can generate significant government revenues for health and development work, according to a new global report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America.
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